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Topic: DI prints and IMAX?
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Frank Angel
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-04-2007 02:11 PM
Over at Exhibitors_Screening_Room list on yahoo, mostly Drive-In guys, Jack posts: quote: When I was building up the print of SPIDER-MAN I noticed that the print we received for the drive in ... all of the heads and tails were marked with the title/reel # as usual .... and then it said "IMAX". We have a print for the indoor theatre also but "IMAX" was not printed on any of those reels. I was just curious if any of you had received a print like this and if so do you know what the difference is? Is it like when they sometimes made special "Drive In" prints. I called the film depot to ask them but got their answering machine, as usual. The message says their hours are from 7 am until 5 pm yet everytime I've called nobody answer the phone ... you always get the answering machine....
I understand that there used to be DI prints, a few stops lighter than normal, but I thought those were gone long ago. On the other hand, could it be something to do with the DMR conversion? Perhaps some prints were struck from the DMR negs? Just curious. And if it is one of those thinner prints, how does it get a designation "IMAX"? I could understand maybe "RCMH," as in Radio City Music Hall because they also used to get specially timed "thin" prints. IMAX doesn't print lighter release prints, do they? Printing at greater value than spec does havoc with the gamma and hence color saturation. Surely IMAX is could not be guilty of such shennanagans, eh? Although given the fact that they think the can get IMAX-wow and visual super-resolution out of 2 Sony 4K projectors and a little DMR manipulation to make resolution out of a sow's ear, me thinks they are in shennagan-overload.
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